FIVE kicks off its fifth season tonight -- and tickets are still available

Earlier this year, Leigh Sullivan Enterprises -- a hospitality-industry marketing, brand-management and public-relations consulting firm helmed by Leigh Sullivan -- announced its fifth crop of chefs to fill out the ranks of the Denver FIVE, an organization that's "a culinary group whose main goal is to celebrate and promote the Colorado culinary scene," says Brian Melton, a mixologist who also pours out the prose for Sullivan.

"It's a big cocktail party," says Melton. "Every chef will do three heavy passed apps, and Jessica Scott will do three different desserts. We'll have Balistreri wines, and James Lee will be making cocktails."

The kick-off event launches a series of monthly (or so) dinners; the next one will be a patio party -- "Tyler calls it a partio," jokes Melton -- hosted by Wiard at Elway's on May 14.

Tickets -- which are $40 each -- are still available for tonight, by the way: if you'd like to attend, Melton says you can either e-mail info@leighsullivan.com to reserve seats or just show up and pay at the door. The festivities start at 6:30 p.m.